ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,418, issued on May 13, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Aerosol generating device" was invented by Won Kyeong Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Heon Jun Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Sung Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Sung Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating device includes: an aerosol generating material reservoir configured to store an aerosol generating material; an atomizer configured to atomize the aerosol generating material into an aerosol; an inflow passage configured to provide fluid communication between outside of the aerosol generating device and the a...